Chapter 186: Solving the Salt Famine
Chonghu is obviously not stupid, give yourself a way back, what is reluctance? is between what can and can't, it seems that even if something happens, there is a reason to plead with Yang Zilu.
Yang Zilu nodded when he heard this, this was not his surprise, Chonghu was just a conspiracy, in addition to the conspiracy, there were two conspiracy, of course, these two conspiracy had been clicked by Yang Zilu. But there are five people like him who have been in official positions. If Chonghu could completely control, or even control most of the Dong'an Ministry, Yang Zilu would not dare to let Chonghu live. It is because Chonghu cannot completely control the Dong'an Ministry, so he can only stand firmly by Yang Zilu's side, otherwise he will lose his power and the life of his family.
"I believe in you, you can do a good job! Now I appoint you as the ruler of Dong'an City and the subordinate doctor of my Han. Yang Zilu patted Chonghu with a smile.
"Thank you!" Chonghu was overjoyed when he heard this, he didn't care about any Yi Zai or doctor, what he paid most attention to was to be responsible for all government affairs in Dong'an City. But soon Chonghu came back to his senses, government affairs, which also means that he can't interfere in military affairs, at least not openly. Chonghu couldn't help but feel a little bitter, but he was unwilling to say anything.
Yang Zilu selected one person from the middle of the team under his command to be appointed as the county division, and expanded the team under his command into a battalion, responsible for defending Dong'an City. However, Yang Zilu also knew that if Chonghu was not given a little force, I was afraid that Chonghu would not be comfortable to sleep. Yang Zilu gave Chonghu his own appointment of the Si Kou of Dong'an City, who is probably equivalent to the current director of the Public Security Bureau, and in the past, he was usually a county teacher. However, Yang Zilu was separated, and the government was set up according to the establishment of the Han State, and Dong'an City had an establishment of fifty people.
Although there were fifty men, they were equipped only with spears, short spears, short swords, shields, and leather armor, which were completely uncontaminated. Even long-range weapons are no more than ten soft bows with an effective range of about thirty meters. Chonghu didn't know for what reason, so he came to beg Yang Zilu to give him more equipment, because the people of the Sanyi tribe were fierce, and every household had at least one bow, and nine out of ten men had swords.
Yang Zilu felt the same, it's okay now, the Han army is stationed here, but after the Han army left, Chonghu really couldn't suppress the ordinary thieves with these equipment. However, Yang Zilu didn't give Chonghu a lot of weapons, as long as he could contain the other party, wasn't there a battalion of regular troops? So Yang Zilu just allocated Chonghu five crossbows, but it also made Chonghu feel a lot more at ease.
Because although this Zhang crossbow is not as powerful as the longbow, after Yang Zilu captured Ju Wucheng and obtained the craftsmen in Ju Wucheng, he re-transformed the Jian Zhang crossbow according to the method of making compound bows with reference to the Central Plains. So that now the Kick Crossbow has become a real Kick Crossbow, with an effective range of 90 steps, and it can pierce through ordinary leather armor within 40 steps.
The only regret is that I thought that three times a minute was the rate of fire, because the arm strength increased, and it took a lot of effort to wind, and it was only possible to shoot two arrows in one minute, but this is no problem against ordinary thieves. After all, the folk bows are all ordinary soft bows, and it takes three years to make a real composite bow for the army according to the methods of the Central Plains. The people have the technology, time, and money there.
Probably Chonghu's own request for weapons made Yang Zilu more or less unhappy, after all, who is willing to hand over advanced weapons to an unstable army.
After knowing that the Han Kingdom continued to produce salt, Chonghu immediately reported the good news to Yang Zilu. Fifty miles east of Dong'an Castle is the seaside, and it is said that the gods bless, boiling sea salt every afternoon to get the most sea salt, Dong'an can produce about one stone of sea salt every day. And Edinburgh was only able to become a big tribe thanks to these sea salts, which made Yang Zilu happy.
What made Yang Zilu even happier was that there were 200 stones of sea salt stored in this book in Dong'an City. Don't look at it much, if you save a little, these sea salts are enough for 30,000 people to eat for a month, and now the population in Han is less than 30,000!
Coupled with the Juwu City that has just been captured, the population is only about 17,800. Of course, this is to subtract the Shanyue tribal population of the Minus and Gui Guo Ministry, which are attached to Yang Zilu. The 'sea salt shortage' of the Han Kingdom was solved all of a sudden, and with the salt-producing land of Dong'an City, Gou Jian didn't want to continue to pinch Yang Zilu's lifeblood.
Yang Zilu immediately sent Yu Miao to personally lead a hundred people to send these sea salts back. At the same time, Yang Zilu also really likes Dong'an City, especially the high platform in Dong'an City that can be called the 'Oriental Hanging Garden' in Yang Zilu's opinion. Of course, he did not forget to ask Yu Miao to mobilize a thousand captives from the Yue Kingdom to build a road from Jiukui City to Dong'an City.
The best way to consolidate your rule is not to have good transportation, but to consolidate your rule is definitely to have good transportation. Good transportation allows the central army to quickly extinguish the local rebels. It is also possible to strengthen communication between the central and local governments, not to mention making small reports that there are any man-made countermeasures, just by communicating more, the central and local governments can understand each other, and there will not be such a thing as the local government can only pay 1 million in taxes every year, but the central government wants 2 million. Isn't this forcing a local rebellion?
In fact, to put it bluntly, the central and local governments are actually like people with each other, and more communication can resolve and reduce misunderstandings.
But when Yang Zilu was planning to strengthen his rule over Dong'an City, the Sanyi clan was surging with undercurrent and had no intention of not giving Yang Zilu a headache at all.
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"Hou Xiong and Old Man Che, you two, have joined forces to invite the tribes of the Sanyi tribe in the south to come, what's the matter?" The old man who had just entered the door glanced at the back bear and the old man of the car who were sitting on the main seat. However, when he saw the decadent old man of the car, he couldn't help but be slightly stunned, and a cloud of doubt involuntarily rose in his heart.
"Chief Shen, please take a seat!" Although the other party didn't speak very politely, Hou Xiong, who was sitting on the main seat, didn't care at all, and he was still polite when he spoke to Chief Shen, who was disrespectful to him.
"Humph! Smiling Tiger! Say it, don't waste everyone's time! If you have something to say, let it go! Chief Shen didn't appreciate it very much, snorted coldly, and found a place to sit down.
A flash of annoyance flashed in Hou Xiong's eyes, and he just wanted to sit back, but immediately thought that now was not the time to turn his face, took a deep breath, and held back his anger. However, he was so provoked by Chief Shen, and he didn't have the heart to be polite, so he got straight to the point: "This matter is still up to Chief Che!" ”
Everyone paid attention to the old man, but the more they looked at the crowd, the more strange they became, why was this old man so decadent? It stands to reason that his Dong'an tribe is one of the most powerful tribes in the Sanyi clan, what is there to deserve him to be decadent to this extent?
PS: The second update is here! Today's writing is really smooth, and the third update is set to be automatically updated at 7 p.m.
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